Simon Kernick

Simon Kernick (born February 1967 in Slough, Buckinghamshire) is a British thriller/crime writer now living in Oxfordshire with his two daughters. Kernick attended Gillotts School, a comprehensive in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Whilst he was a student his jobs included fruit-picker and Christmas-tree uprooter. He graduated from Brighton Polytechnic in 1991 with a degree in humanities.^[1]

His novel Relentless was recommended on Richard & Judy's Summer book club 2007.^[2] It was the 8th best-selling paperback, and the best-selling thriller in the UK in the same year.^[3]

Awards

Awards for Kernick's writing

Year	Title	Award	Result	Ref.
2003	The Business of Dying	Barry Award for Best British Crime	Finalist	[4]
2004	The Murder Exchange	Barry Award for Best British Crime	Finalist	[4]
2005	The Crime Trade	Barry Award for Best British Crime	Finalist	[4]
2005	A Good Day To Die	Steel Dagger Award	Finalist	[4]
2006	A Good Day To Die	Barry Award for Best British Crime	Finalist	[4]
2007	Relentless	Barry Award for Best Thriller	Finalist	[4]
2015		Dagger in the Library	Longlist	[5]

Bibliography

• The Business of Dying (Dennis Milne 1) (2002) — (Bantam, ISBN 0-593-04978-0)
• The Murder Exchange (2003) — (Bantam, ISBN 0-593-04979-9)
• The Crime Trade (Tina Boyd 1) (2004) — (Bantam, ISBN 0-593-05135-1)
• A Good Day To Die (Dennis Milne 2) (2005) — (Bantam, ISBN 0-593-05146-7)
• Relentless (Tina Boyd 2, Mike Bolt 1) (2006) — (Bantam, ISBN 0-593-05471-7)
• Severed (Mike Bolt 2) (2007) — (Bantam, ISBN 0-593-05473-3)
• Deadline (Tina Boyd 3) (2008)
• Target (Tina Boyd 4, Mike Bolt 3) (2009)
• The Last 10 Seconds (Tina Boyd 5, Mike Bolt 4) (2010)
• The Payback (Dennis Milne 3, Tina Boyd 6) (2011)
• Siege(Scope 1, plus Tina Boyd) (2012)
• Wrong Time, Wrong Place (2013, February)
• Ultimatum (Tina Boyd 7, Mike Bolt 5) (2013, June)
• Stay Alive (Mike Bolt 6, Scope 2) (2014)
• The Final Minute (Tina Boyd 8) (2015, January)
• The Witness (DI Ray Mason 1) (2016, January)
• The Bone Field (DI Ray Mason 2, Tina Boyd 9) (2017, January)
• The Hanged Man (DI Ray Mason 3, Tina Boyd 10) (2018, January)
• Dead Mans Gift & Other Stories (2018, July)
• We Can See You (2018, November)
• Die Alone (DI Ray Mason 4, Tina Boyd 11, Mike Bolt 7) (2019, November)
• Kill A Stranger (2020)
• Good Cop Bad Cop (2021)
• The First 48 Hrs (2023)
• You All Die Tonight (2025)